Birthday Blog Post !!!

Hey Everyone!

It's my birthday today and I thought I'd share a couple designs that I wore for my birthday this weekend. 

I hope you enjoy them! They're both recreations of past birthday manicures. One is from last year (2014) and one from 3 years ago (2012) I'm hoping there's a little bit of improvement in my technique between then and now ;)

First up is a recreation of sorts of a balloon mani I did three years ago, This was at the start of my nail art "career" so it wasn't the best, but I remember how proud I was at the time ! It was probably the most complex design I had done to date,

So I thought of a way of recreating it without copying it exactly, as it was such a simple design I wanted to add a little flair to it.

Of course I had to add glitter, and being a mermaid at heart I chose "Seahorse Rodeo" by Smitten Polish ( purchased from the lovely Annette at Rainbow Connection in the UK ) I then used two coats of HK Girl top coat to ensure a clean smooth surface for the design.

I initially wanted to hand paint some balloons on, but then I remembered I recently bought the Birthday plates from Mo-You London & they were perfect for what I wanted.

For this mani, all the stamping designs were from Happy Birthday Plate number 02, & the stamping polishes were all from Mundo de Unas

The little balloon dog is my favourite! :)

This next design is again a loosely based recreation of last years birthday mani. I wanted to stick with the cartoon Unicorn theme, but I also wanted to avoid having such a busy background again, so I went with "Cloud Atlas" by Glam Polish which is an amazing white crelly packed with lots of different sized circle glitters & is totally unicorny !

The Unicorn itself is hand painted on with acrylic paints, but even though there isn't as much going on in this design as last year's, I still think it's an awesomely cute thing to look at <3

What do you guys think? Comment below what you did or didn't like about these recreations.

See you all next Thursday for another A to Z post

L x